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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Gonzales
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
1-24-06
HB 153
SHORT TITLE
TAOS COUNTY ARTICULATED LAND-USE
MAP
SB
ANALYST Hadwiger
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY06
FY07
$35.0
Non-Rec
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 153 appropriates $35 thousand from the general fund to the Local Government Divi-
sion of the Department of Finance and Administration for preparation of an articulated land-use
map for Taos County.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $35 thousand contained in this bill is a non-recurring expense to the general
fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY07 would revert to
the general fund.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
DFA indicated that Taos County currently has only a general land use map, with agricultural
zoning shown for the bulk of its private land use. It is revising its land use regulations to emulate
the zoning in place in Rio Arriba County, which designates riparian lands as agricultural and
prevents development on acequia watered agricultural parcels on more than 20 percent of that